Cigarette



(No Model.)

W. H. BUTLER. CIGARETTE.

No. 498,927. Patented June 6, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. BUTLER, on BRooKLYN, NEW YORK.

CIGARETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 498,927, dated June 6,1893.

Application filed May 2,1892. Renewed April 21, 1893. Serial No.471,342. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. BUTLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarettes, fullydescribed and represented in the following specification and theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

In the manufacture of cigarettes having a wrapper of paper or similarmaterial, the wrapper has generally been folded around the tobacco andits edges overlapped and secured by pasting. In the manufacture ofcigarettes by this method, especially by machinery, it has been founddiflicult and sometimes impossible to draw and secure the wrapper aboutthe tobacco with sufficient tension to make the cigarette as solid asdesired.

The object of the present invention is to obviate this difficulty and atthe same time to provide a cigarette the outer surface of which issmooth and which may be formed readily and cheaply by a simple machine,and to that end the invention consists in a cigarette having the edgesof its Wrapper turned inwardly and secured together in the manner whichwill now be described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,in which- Figure 1 is an enlarged perspective view of a cigarette formedin accordance With the present invention. Fig. 2 is a cross section ofthe cigarette.

In the said figures a is the tobacco or filler of the cigarette and bthe wrapper made of paper or any of the usual materials. The edges 'ofthe wrapper, instead of being overlapped and pasted together as usual,are turned inwardly and brought together with the original outersurfaces of the edges in contact, so as to form a slightly projectinginner rib 1 along the length of the cigarette. The engaging edges 1 arethen secured together in this position, preferably by pasting, by whicha strong joint is formed, but it will be understood that any othersuitable means may be used by which a joint of sufficient strength maybe formed. The cigarette is then preferably rolled or pressed so as toflatten down the exterior of the seam.

It will be seen that my invention provides a cigarette smooth on theoutside and it will a be found in practice that a continuous cigaretteof this form may be produced very rapidly by machinery, while theinwardly projecting edges 1 afford means for grasping the Wrapper anddrawing it tightly around the tobacco. It will be understood that whileI prefer to form my cigarette by folding the wrapper around the tobaccofiller, the tube may be previously formed as described and then filledwith tobacco in any suitable manner.

What I claim is- 1. A cigarette having its wrapper secured by inwardlyprojecting rib 1 formed by turn ing the edges of the wrapper inward andsecuring them together without rolling or folding, substantially asdescribed.

2. A cigarette having its wrapper secured by inwardly projecting rib 1formed by turning the edges of the wrapper inward and securing them.together-by pasting without rolling or folding, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

WM. BUTLER.

Witnesses:

J. M. W. HICKS, O. J. SAWYER.

